Parkinson has decided to fire back this time, opening up in an interview with Event Magazine. Mirren, in 2011, called the host a "sexist old fart" for his comments on his show nearly four decades earlier.

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Parkinson, though, said that the two simply did not like each other. When asked if he'd apologize, he said, "I don't want to. Nor does she. I don't regard what happened as being anything other than good television."

According to the Telegraph, Parkinson also said, "Am I sexist? No, I'm Yorkshire. I've been married for 57 years so something must be going right."

The 1975 interview begins with Parkinson introducing Mirren, then 30, as the "sex queen" of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

He proceeds to quote a review which noted Mirren's supposed "slutty eroticism."

Parkinson asks if Mirren's "equipment" would hold her back, and if she is a serious actor.

"How dare you?" she fires back. "Serious actresses can't have big bosoms, is that what you mean?"

Parkinson answers, "It might distract from the performance."

"That can't necessarily be true," Mirren argues. "What a crummy performance if people are obsessed with the size of your bosom or anything else. I hope that the performance and the play overcome such boring questions."

An interview from 1975, where actor Helen Mirren shuts down sexist questioning from TV host Michael Parkinson, has resurfaced on social media. (beretsheri0001/Youtube)

In 2011, Mirren talked about the awkward interview with the Telegraph. She said that at the time, she was preparing to play Lady Macbeth when she appeared on the talk show. "I was terrified. I watched it and I actually thought, bloody hell!

"I did really well. I was so young and inexperienced. And he was such a f---ing sexist old fart. He was. He denies it to this day that it was sexist, but of course he was."

And as the Telegraph notes, Parkinson, now 81, does not plan on retracting anything he said, as part of the issue that has festered for over 40 years. While denying that his actions were sexist, he admitted that he was a bit "over-reactive." But he qualified the statement by saying she "presented a provocative figure."

As the Telegraph points out, Parkinson added, "If you didn't live in that time, you're not allowed an opinion."